THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



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BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



CALIFORNIA. 



The Happy Valley Irrigation Com- 

 pany has commenced work on a stor- 

 age reservoir twelve miles northeast 

 of Cottonwood, which, when finished, 

 will furnish water for many thousand 

 acres. 



Bonds totalling $010,000 have been 

 voted .by the Modesto Irrigation Dis- 

 trict. Five hundred thousand dollars 

 of this amount will be used for con- 

 crete flumes and fills and enlarging 

 the main canal outside the district at 

 the headworks. and $110,000 will be 

 used for canal repairs. 



Two hundred land owners in Vic- 

 tor Valley recently passed resolutions 

 demanding Government support for 

 a reclamation project to irrigate 300,- 

 000 tillable acres in that district. The 

 resolutions will be forwarded to Con- 

 gress and to Secretary of the Interior 

 Lane. The Government is asked to 

 appropriate $15,000 for survey work 

 on the Mojave river, with a water 

 shed of 350 square miles. By im- 

 pounding the water from melting 

 snmvs and the summer rains it is 

 believed that the greater part of Vic- 

 tor Valley can be irrigated. 



Association, stated recently that he 

 believed sufficient financial assistance 

 has been promised to insure the irri- 

 gation of more than 200,000 acres of 

 fertile land in the valley. Two years 

 ago aid was promised by the South- 

 ern Pacific railroad, and it is thought 

 that this promise has been kept. Irri- 

 gation of Honey Lake' valley can be 

 accomplished through several sources 

 of water supply, including Eagle Lake. 



The railroad commission has ren- 

 dered a decision authorizing the Ex- 

 celsior Water and Mining Company 

 of Smartsville, serving water for irri- 

 gation purposes in Nevada and Yuba 

 counties, to charge a minimum per an- 

 num of $4 per acre for one acre foot 

 of water, and an additional rate of 

 $1.25 for each additional half-acre 

 foot. 



G. L. Clayton, president of the 

 Honey Lake Valley Water Users' 



A new irrigation project in Shasta 

 county, called the Anderson Irriga- 

 tion District, has been virtually or- 

 ganized. It is proposed to divert 300 

 second feet of water from the Sacra- 

 mento river, at Turtle Bay, in the 

 city limits of Redding and carry 

 it by canals and laterals down the 

 west side of the river, covering 27,000 

 acres of land in Shasta and Tehama 

 counties. The estimated cost of the 

 project is $275,000, or $12 per acre. 



ARIZONA. 



The Water Users' Association of 

 the Salt River Valley has taken ac- 

 tive stand against the proposal of the 

 state game warden to plant wild rice 

 on the sand bars of the Gila and Salt 

 rivers for the use of the wild game 

 birds. Wild rice sjrows very rank, 

 spreads rapidly and would soon choke 

 up the irrigation ditches. 



The Tucson Farms Company has 

 closed a contract for power to pump 

 water for irrigating an additional 

 4,000 acres at Sahuarita. The com- 

 pany now has 10,000 acres under cul- 

 tivation. 



COLORADO. 



A discovery of water that may have 

 an important bearing on the future 

 development of vacant land close to 

 Colorado Springs has been made by 

 the East Colorado Springs Land 

 Company, composed of Irving How- 

 bert, J. A. Hayes and H. McGarry. 

 This company owns a large tract of 

 unimproved land immediately east of 

 Colorado Springs, stretching along 

 Pike's Peak highway. The first well 

 sunk developed a flow of water at a 

 depth of 100 feet and the well now 

 has 90 feet of water. It is apparently 

 an inexhaustible supply. With a gas- 



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